APWH UNIT 4

this includes all practice MCQ questions chapters 33-38

The spark for World War I, the first total war in history, was provided when Gavrilo Princip assassinated whom?

Francis Ferdinand

Approximately how many combatants died in World War I?

Fifteen million

The term for the idea that people with the same ethnic origins, language, and political ideals had the right to form sovereign states

Self-determination

The nationalistic aspirations of subject minorities was most threatening to which state?

Austria-Hungary

Slavic cultural unity was actively promoted by which country?

Russia

In 1914, England's share of the world's industrial output stood at

Fourteen percent

Which of the following was NOT an important area of competition and conflict between England and Germany before World War I?

Religious differences

The members of the Triple Alliance were

Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy

The French were deeply suspicious of German expansion because of

The Franco-Prussian War

The military plan that called for an invasion of France through Belgium

The Schlieffen Plan

The soldiers who marched off in 1914 to fight in World War I were mostly

Enthusiastic

The German offensive of 1914 was halted at

The Marne River

The western front in World War I was

A bloody stalemate

In World War I, the eastern front was

Ultimately a spectacular German success

Which of the following does NOT characterize trench warfare in World War I?

Cavalry charges

The massive German assault on the western front in 1916 was

Unsuccessful because it failed to break French defenses at Verdun

The Somme was

A British assault in 1916 that gained only a few thousand yards

Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the new total war of World War I?

The extension of laissez-faire capitalism

What effect did World War I have on the status of women?

They took on men’s work roles

The World War I poet who called dying for one’s country an “old Lie”

Wilfred Owen

Which of the following is NOT an explanation for the expansion of World War I to Asia, Africa, and the Pacific?

The German invasion of neutral Belgium as a breach of international law

The Twenty-One Demands were issued

January 18, 1915

Japan fought in World War I mainly because of its

Desire to acquire German colonies in Asia

Which German African colonies were conquered by the Allies?

Togoland, the Cameroons, German Southwest Africa, and German East Africa

The March Revolution of 1917

Was unplanned and incomplete

The last tsar of Russia

Nicholas II

The main reason for the failure of the Provisional Government in Russia in 1917

Its inability to satisfy demands to end the war

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Ended Russia’s involvement in World War I

The official reason the United States entered World War I

Germany’s resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917

A major problem of the Paris Peace Conference

Russia’s absence from negotiations

After World War I, Mustafa Kemal became president of

The Republic of Turkey

Woodrow Wilson accepted harsh terms in the Treaty of Versailles in return for

The creation of the League of Nations

The mandate system after World War I

Angered Arabs because it was imperialism under another name

The term “lost generation” was coined by

Gertrude Stein

The author of Decline of the West was

Oswald Spengler

In Epistle to the Romans, Karl Barth attacked

Liberal Christian theology and belief in progress

The author of All Quiet on the Western Front was

Erich Maria Remarque

Who argued that history shows steady failure?

Nikolai Berdyaev

After World War I, the idea of progress

Came under attack

The theory that space and time are relative

Einstein’s theory of general relativity

The uncertainty principle is associated with

Werner Heisenberg

The uncertainty principle states that

It is impossible to know position and velocity at the same time

Freud believed neurosis came from

Sexual drives and fantasies

Photography led artists to

Create reality rather than mirror it

Which was NOT a new twentieth-century art movement?

Impressionism

Artistic experimentation led to

Acceptance of individual reality

The leading cubist artist was

Pablo Picasso

Agriculture in the 1920s suffered from

Overproduction and falling prices

By 1929, wheat prices

Were at their lowest point in 400 years

Black Thursday in 1929 involved

Mass panic selling on the stock exchange

At the lowest point of the Great Depression, U.S. banks closed

Forty-four percent

Keynes argued governments should

Increase spending to stimulate the economy

Which was NOT part of the New Deal?

Tightening the money supply

The Russian Civil War was fought between

Reds and Whites

War Communism involved

Nationalizing industry and seizing land

Lenin’s New Economic Policy

Allowed limited free markets

Whose name means “man of steel”?

Joseph Stalin

Stalin’s First Five-Year Plan

Aimed at rapid industrial growth

Which was NOT used by Mussolini to gain power?

Communism

The Nuremberg Laws did what?

Removed Jewish citizenship

Before World War II, Nazi policy toward Jews

Favored emigration

Kristallnacht was

The Night of Broken Glass

After World War I, nationalism was strongest in Asia in

India and China

The main anti-British organization in India

Indian National Congress

Gandhi’s method of resistance

Satyagraha

Which was NOT part of Gandhi’s philosophy?

Heavy industrialization

The India Act of 1937

Gave limited self-rule

Pakistan means

Land of the Pure

The Great Depression worsened Hindu-Muslim tensions

Economic inequality

The May Fourth Movement

Opposed foreign interference

The Chinese Communist Party was influenced by

The Soviet Union

The first leader of the Chinese Communist Party

Mao Zedong

Sun Yat-sen opposed

A communist dictatorship

The Northern Expedition was launched by

Jiang Jieshi

The Long March

Secured Mao Zedong’s leadership

Maoism emphasized

The peasantry

Japan was part of the League of Nations’

Big Five

Japan most strongly preserved

Its cultural identity

The Mukden Incident

Justified Japan’s invasion of Manchuria

Manchukuo was

A Japanese puppet state

African colonies joined World War I because

Colonial obligations

Which African colonies avoided World War I?

Spanish-controlled territories

African soldiers in the French army during World War I

480,000

Pan-Africanism called for

Global unity of people of African descent

A major Pan-African leader

Marcus Garvey

U.S. Latin American policy included

Dollar Diplomacy and the Good Neighbor Policy

The Good Neighbor Policy is associated with

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Mexico nationalized oil under

Lázaro Cárdenas

The height of Japanese atrocity in China

The Rape of Nanjing

The Guomindang survived World War II by

Moving inland

The Tripartite Pact included

Japan, Germany, and Italy

Italy gained military experience in

The Spanish Civil War

The League of Nations showed weakness in

Ethiopia

Hitler’s “November Crime” referred to

The 1918 armistice

Germany annexed Austria in

The Anschluss

The Munich Conference symbolized

Appeasement

World War II began in Asia with

Japan invading China

World War II began in Europe with

Germany invading Poland

Blitzkrieg means

Lightning war